Towards a theory that links experience in the arts with the acquisition of knowledge

International Journal of Art and Design Education

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 274-284

  Dahlman, Ylva ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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EID: 34848819406     PISSN: 14768062     EISSN: 14768070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-8070.2007.00538.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Eisner, E. W. (1998) Does Experience in the Arts Boost Academic Achievement? Journal of Art & Design Education, Vol. 17, No. 1.
2. One Swedish university credit is equivalent to 1 week or 40 hours of work.
3. The study and the results are presented as a whole in Dahlman, Y. (2004) Kunskap genom bilder [Knowledge through Pictures: A Study of How Pictorial Practice Affects Understanding in the Field of Study for Students of Natural and Social Science]. Doctoral thesis, SLU, Uppsala.
4. See, for example, Winner E. & Cooper, M. (2000) Mute Those Claims: No Evidence (Yet) for a Causal Link between Arts, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 34, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 11-75.
5. Rauscher, F. H., Shaw, G. L. & Ky, K. N. (1993) Music and Spatial Task Performance. Nature, Vol. 365, p. 611. Haanstra, F. (2000) Dutch studies into effects of arts education programmes on school success (unpublished).
6. Eisner, E. (1999) What Justifies Arts Education: What Research Does Not Say, Enlightened Advocacy, State-of-the-Arts Series, No. 4. University of Maryland, p. 28.
7. Eisner, E. (1998), op. cit., p. 5.
8. Peirce (1983), p. 91. Peirce, C. 1878/1965. Hur våra idéer kan göras klara. Filosofn genom tiderna. Vol 3, pp. 252-269.
9. Clark A. (1997) Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again. London: MIT Press, p. 210.
10. Polanyi, M. (1958/1962) Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. London: Routledge, p. 616.
11. Hinman, M. L. (1982) Nietzsche, Metaphor, and Truth, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 43, No. 2. pp. 179-99.
12. Nietszche actually translated it Übertragung. Hinman, M. L. op. cit. translated it 'carrying over'.
13. Johnson, M. (1987) The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. xv.
14. Ibid., p. 15.
15. Ricoeur, P. (1979) The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination and Feeling, in Sacks, S., [Ed.] On Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, pp. 141-57.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Engdahl, H. (1992.
19. Ibid. p. 14.